syllable

The magnetic pull of RØZ — whose stage name is pronounced like the second syllable in “arroz” — cannot be overstated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

"We went through each word and each syllable to make sure that the pronunciation was perfect for Bilquis," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Shortly before he took office in January 2025, the Chinese government and official media began using a different Chinese character for "lu" to represent the first syllable in his surname.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

In English, 75 of the 100 are a single syllable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

“Nod if you understand,” she whispered to Lazlo, and she hated every syllable, and hated herself for not resisting, but there was no resisting.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

They identified 100 distinct "behavioral syllables," which are short, repeating actions that form the basic elements of how the fish move and rest.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026

News channel YTN lavished praise on Kang's "heartfelt message to Korea", referring to the movie by its affectionate shorthand "Kedehun", a combination of the title's first three syllables.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

The technique is used in South Indian Carnatic - or classical - music, and involves repeating certain syllables and phrases to create a drum-like sound.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

With her original, breathy way of speaking, stressing odd syllables and stretching random vowels to the breaking point, her mad fashions and family of wigs, Moira is a sketch character with depth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

“Lazlo Strange,” she repeated, and the syllables were exotic on her tongue.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“Poetry’s trash, mere clouds of words, comfort to the hopeless. But this is no cloud, no syllabled phantom that stands here shaking its sword at you.”

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

The hearth, the roof-tree, the mountain, and the rivulet are not so eloquent as the once syllabled 'Good-bye,' come it from ever so humble a voice.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

Even He, with his unspoken voice, more awful than the thunders of Sinai, or the syllabled speech of the Hurricane, speaks to us.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

A gentleman met me at the door, and my parched lips syllabled the name of Alice.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

He follows down the gradual Extinction of Syllables; and in this respect, our anciently syllabled, now mute E, takes high place, and falls first under his consideration.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

Their tongues join together in syllabling the sharp-cut words, which for ever slice asunder time and the broad-backed moors.

From Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

She added reasons in whose syllabling Napier heard Julian's voice.

From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

Instances of nouns and adjectives employed as verbs are: pennanc’d, luting, passion’d, neighbour’d, syllabling, companion’d, labrynth, anguish’d, poesied, vineyard’d, woof’d, loaned, medicin’d, zon’d, mesh, pleasure, legion’d, companion, green’d, gordian’d, character’d, finn’d, forest’d, tusk’d, monitor.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

Oh, weary women, syllabling brokenly His precious promises, patient, untiring watcher, whose tired feet have grown weary of the 'burden and heat of the day,' wait 'God's time!'

From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock

Music without the syllabling of words—yet breathing worship, and with the spirit of piety filling all the Night-Heavens.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson